Language and the First World War

[MartH]

A very interesting site covering the language of the Great War, really excellent, and has postcards, phrase dictionaries (including German French), Conferences (on gone), and a host of other topics. Looks like to have been going only this year.

The site: http://languages-and-first-world-war.tumblr.com/

The archive, an easy way to see thumbnails:http://languages-and-first-world-war.tumblr.com/archive

[b3rn]

Good find.

[Don]

That's (Ruddy) excellent,

Thank you for posting it

Gerry

[MartH]

Especially like the link to this :http://wordsinwartime.wordpress.com/

In August 1914, Andrew Clark, rector of Great Leighs in Essex and a long-established volunteer on the (then on-going) first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, decided to document the impact of war on the English language. The 70 notebooks (and associated files) that he produced over the next four years, headed ‘English Words in War-Time’, provide a detailed and largely unexamined record of language on the Home Front, and the reporting of war in a critical period of social and historical change. The ‘English Words in War-Time’ project will track Clark’s emerging lexical history in ‘real time’ — if a hundred years later — and in a series of blogs (both thematic, as well as focussing on individual words) which will run across the centenary of WWI.